The SD cards of the future will come with storage up to 128GB, transfer speeds of 985mbps

The SD Cards Association announced new memory card variants with a storage capacity of 128 terabytes (TB) (approximately 131,072 GB). In addition to the higher storage memory cards, the badociation also unveiled a variant supporting ultra-fast data transfer speeds of 985 megabytes per second.

The variants are available in two formats, SD Express and SD Ultra Capacity (SDUC). While the SDUC variant extends the maximum storage capacity to 128 TB, the SD Express card offers high data transfer rates of nearly one gigabyte per second.

The SD Express card inherits PCIe and NVMeTM interfaces known around the world for its high bandwidth and low latency.

The jump seems quite significant because currently the maximum storage capacity of SD memory cards oscillates around 2 TB, which is still only theoretical. The biggest memory card in terms of storage capacity is currently a 1 TB SD card unveiled by SanDisk in 2016.

The technology was developed keeping in mind more and more device performance. Whether it's mobile phones or DSLRs, the current devices are capable of capturing 4K or VR videos that do not require a lot of storage space, but they also require a speed of impressive data to capture the videos at their highest quality.

Not only do they meet current technological requirements, but these new variants are also scalable devices capable of data and speed technologies such as slow motion video, 8K video capture and playback, 360 cameras / videos degrees, "With SD Express, we are offering a whole new level of memory card with faster protocols turning cards into a removable SSD," said Hiroyuki Sakamoto, president of the SDA, said BusinessWire had said: "SD 7.0 provides breakthrough innovations to anticipate the needs of future devices and content-rich and speed-hungry applications, "he adds. 59002] The other advantage of these cards is that they are backward compatible and interoperable, which means that these cards will always work with older devices.

The only thing that deserves to be considered is whether they are profitable? A SanDisk 512GB memory card costs around $ 300. It will be interesting to see how much these new variants will cost. Although it is common knowledge that the prices of such devices decrease over time, it will certainly take some time for these devices to be used routinely.